Necessity Quotes

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Whether surrounded with error or truth, the web woven around them in childhood's days lasts, and seldom wears threadbare...The traditions of my earliest recollection are… — Brigham Young
It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection. — St. Jerome
Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful. — Bayard Taylor
All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace… — Saint Basil
Work is as much a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing that can be called work still imagine they… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
I was entirely wrapped up in the idea of becoming an actor. I learned how to write on the job, basically out of necessity. I… — Glenn Howerton
Liquor is not a necessity. It is a means of momentarily sidestepping necessity. — Clifton Fadiman
To a great extent the achievements of invention, of mechanical and of artistic creation, must of necessity, and rightly, be individual rather than governmental. It… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I am a woman / who understands / the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin / still lie beyond me. — Olga Broumas
When comprehending how different people truly are, you also comprehend the absolute necessity of some divine authority. — Criss Jami
When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a… — Henry David Thoreau
By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One aspect to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one part, must of necessity… — D. H. Lawrence
A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity. — Jean de la Bruyere
To bewail the loss of a person we love is a happiness compared with the necessity of living with one we hate. — Jean de la Bruyere
Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride. — William Faulkner
When we try to imagine what God is like we must of necessity use that-which-is-not- God as the raw material for our minds to work… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the conflict… — Karl Marx
I have found nothing stronger than Necessity. — Euripides
Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible… — Susan B. Anthony
Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury. — Joseph Conrad
Necessity never made a good bargain. — Benjamin Franklin
Our necessities never equal our wants. — Benjamin Franklin

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